{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (5)]}[20th April 1991]

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‘… This is the time when Shiism became a state religion and for the first time in Islam there appeared an organised ecclesiastical system rather than the more or less loose spiritual and practical leadership of old.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:97]

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